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WinQTLCart Procedures 53
WinQTLCart uses the numbers (2, 1, 0, 12, 10, -1) to determine how to encode the output of
the genotypes. The alphanumeric tokens you enter here indicate how you have coded the
markers in the source data. See the topic MCD file format 39
for more information.
Chromosome and marker information
Total chromosome number. The total number of chromosomes. Click the spin dial to the
right of this field to select more or fewer.
Current chromosome. Shows the active chromosome you're working on. Click the spin dial to
the right of this field to select a new chromosome. You'll see the new chromosome's
information in the Distance and Label boxes to the right.
Markers for chromosome. Total number of markers for this chromosome.
Average space between markers (cM). Produces marker positions randomly.
Variations of the marker positions (%). How many deviations are allowed, on average
Check Read marker positions from a text file and click Browse to select a text file
containing that information. Also, select a marker distance type.
Position. Indicates that the numbers indicate positions from the left telomere of the current
chromosome. This means the numbers should be in increasing order.
Interval. Indicates that the numbers are for the interval distance after a marker. This means
that the last number, and the last number only, should be zero.
From QSI file. To produce the simulation data by loading a QSI file alone. In Step 3, you can save all
simulation parameters into a QSI file.
Filename. The file name of the MCD file that will be created.
Directory. The directory that the simulated MCD file will be created.